This course is designed to introduce students to general bookkeeping and accounting principles. Class discussion will concentrate on the relevance of accounting judgments to legal issues rather than focusing on technical problems. Students will examine income statements, balance sheets, and other accounting documents. Emphasis will be placed on an understanding of accepted accounting principles undergraduate financial accounting can take this course only with permission of the professor.

This course builds on Partnership Tax (but which is NOT a prerequisite) and focuses primarily on corporations and S-Corporations. It is an essential course for anyone planning to practice corporate law.

A comprehensive survey of the basic legal devices to control the use of land, theories of land use planning, nuisance, private agreements, zoning and zoning procedure, the role of the federal government in land planning, exercise of eminent domain, and selected Kentucky problems, such as rural zoning and proposed New Towns for Appalachia.

The law governing the issuance, distribution and trading of securities under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; the obligation to register securities; public offerings by issuers; secondary distributions; and registration requirements growing out of mergers, definition of a requirements; insider trading prohibitions; antifraud provisions in tender offers, self tenders, proxy solicitations and the purchase and sale of securities.

The role of the legal system in regulating the interrelated subsystems within the physical environ- ment, including: water and air pollution, solid waste disposal, and strip mining. Emphasis on: constitu- tional limitations on the public's power to implement planning proposals; relationships between federal, state and local governments; structure of agencies regulating environmental quality; standards for admin- istrative discretion; the openness of administrative hearing procedures; and the scope of judicial review of administrative decisions.

History, organization, and structure of American labor unions; obligations and prerogatives of employers; questions of representation; privileges and obligations of unions; collective bargaining and dispute settlement.

This course provides a comprehensive overview of the law as it impacts the American primary and secondary education system. Course topics include education as an individual right and a state duty; campus safety; student and teacher rights relating to expression, religion, and privacy; educational policy development; copyright issues; education of students with disabilities; educational funding and accountability; and other topics as they timely emerge in the ongoing public debates over education policy and law.

Introduction to the legal process by which interests are adjusted and decisions reached on the international scene. Treaties, the law of inter- national organizations, the "common law" of nations and national laws with significant international ramifications are examined to determine their effect on international cooperation and coercion.

The body of law structuring economic organization and activities in a free enterprise national system. Major matters considered in the course are government creation and regulation of the legal monopolies, controls over collaborative conduct of competing economic entities, and legal controls over the vertical distributive relationship of suppliers, dealers, and customers.

This is a survey course on the legal regime(s) governing the Internet. In a short period of time, the Internet has assumed a prominent place in the global economy, facilitating hundreds of billions of dollars worth of business-to-business and business-to-consumer transactions annually. At the same time, the Internet has become and important means of person- to-person and intra-organizational communication. This course will focus on many of the important legal questions that have arisen as a consequence of the rapid expansion of Internet use.